This type of memory remains hidden until a stimulus brings it to mind.
What is implicit memory
100
Physical abilities involving large body movements, such as walking and jumping.
What are gross motor skills
100
The first period of Piaget's cognitive development which begins at birth and ends at about 24 months.
What is sensorimotor intelligence
100
Every year in Africa, 1 million people die of this disease, most of them children.
What is Malaria
100
The theory connects biosocial and psychosocial development and was developed by Sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson.
What is psychoanalytic theory
200
A fiber that extends from a neuron and transmits electrochemical impulses from that neuron to the dendrites of other neurons.
What is an axon
200
Physical abilities involving small body movements, especially of the hands and fingers, such as drawing and picking up a coin.
What are fine motor skills
200
The realization that objects (including people) still exist when they can no longer be seen, touched, or heard.
What is object permanence
200
This primes the body’s immune system to resist a specific contagious disease.
What is immunization
200
The stage including the first year of life in Freud's theory.
What is the oral stage
300
The outer layers of the brain in humans and other mammals which is involved with most thinking, feeling, and sensing.
What is the cortex
300
This occurs when a sensory system detects a stimulus, as when the inner ear reverberates with sound or the retina and pupil of the eye intercept light.
What is sensation
300
An experimental apparatus that gives an illusion of a sudden drop-off between one horizontal surface and another.
What is the visual cliff
300
A thick, high-calorie fluid secreted by the mother’s breasts at birth.
What is colostrum
300
From the perspective of this theory, emotions and personality are molded as parents reinforce or punish a child’s spontaneous behaviors.
What is behaviorism
400
The intersection between the axon of one neuron and the dendrites of other neurons.
What is a synapse.
400
This occurs when the brain notices and processes a sensation.
What is perception
400
A single word that is used to express a complete, meaningful thought.
What is a holophrase
400
A disease which is caused by severe deficiency of vitamin D, a vitamin naturally produced by the body in response to sunshine.
What is rickets
400
Learning that is accomplished by observing others—both what they do and how other people react to that behavior.
What is social learning
500
The great but temporary increase in the number of dendrites that occurs in an infant’s brain during the first two years of life.
What is transient exuberance
500
The country where caregivers provide rhythmic stretching exercises for their infants as part of daily care; their infants are among the world’s youngest walkers.
What is Jamaica
500
An opportunity for perception and interaction that is offered by a person, place, or object in the environment.
What is affordance
500
The tendency for children to be severely underweight for their age as a result of malnutrition.
What is wasting
500
This theory argues that that the entire social and cultural context shapes infant emotional development.